Steven T. Katz (Steven Theodore Katz) Quotes
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
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I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.
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Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.
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There won't remain a single Jew that we will need to defend beyond the fence.
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Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
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"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves"
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Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.
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I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we're willing to admit even to ourselves.
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They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.
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There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
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The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.
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I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life. Or some kind of energy or antigravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.
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I'm quite a romantic person - everyone loves being treated a little bit special, no matter how hard you are on the surface. I live in movie land; my head is full of nonsense.
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I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
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There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
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I was the only Jew who'd ever been elected, and I don't know when there'll be another.
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I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
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The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ.
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You can just start to feel really pregnant. Like you are the hugest person on the face of the planet.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.
